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99 Percent Of People Couldn’t Ace Pew’s Online Security Quiz

The majority of people couldn’t even get a passing grade, and with cybersecurity, ignorance isn’t bliss

 

By Allee Manning
March 22nd, 2017
 

After discovering that many Americans are failing to do the things they need to do in order to avoid being hacked in January, Pew Research Center  is now able to tell us just how clueless we really are.

 

Ask Americans to define a “botnet,” and most can’t. Can turning off a GPS prevent smartphone location tracking? That’s also a tough question—so, too, is whether our e-mail is encrypted by default.

 

In order to find out whether or not our failure to safeguard our digital privacy is based in ignorant bliss or intentional disregard, Pew created a 13-question cybersecurity quiz, with questions ranging from the obvious to the technical.

 

The 1,055 adult respondents were also asked to identify the most secure password out of four given options, identify a phishing scam, and pick which of multiple login screens included multi-factor authentication. (You can take the quiz yourself here, preferably before reading on and having at least one answered correctly for you.)

 

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